''Entomophaga'' is a genus of
flies in the family
Tachinidae.
It was reviewed by T. Tachi and H. Shima in 2006 and was found to be
paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
; it was also found to form a
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
group with ''
Proceromyia''.
Species
*''
E. exoleta''
( Meigen, 1824)
*''
E. nigrohalterata''
(Villeneuve
Villeneuve, LaVilleneuve or deVilleneuve may refer to:
People
* Villeneuve (surname)
Places
Australia
* Villeneuve, Queensland, a town in the Somerset Region
Canada
* Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a Formula One racetrack in Montréal
* Villeneuv ...
, 1921)
*''
E. sufferta''
(Villeneuve
Villeneuve, LaVilleneuve or deVilleneuve may refer to:
People
* Villeneuve (surname)
Places
Australia
* Villeneuve, Queensland, a town in the Somerset Region
Canada
* Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a Formula One racetrack in Montréal
* Villeneuv ...
, 1942)
*''
E. ussuriensis''
Tachi & Shima, 2006
*''
E. vernalis''
Tachi & Shima, 2006
References
Tachininae
Tachinidae genera
Taxa named by Paolo Lioy
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